No, really? More broken bones among ADDers? :eek: I wish they had measured treated VS untreated ADDers however. (Maybe they did -- it doesn't say in the abstract, though.) But since most (~90%) of adult ADDers are not even diagnosed, I don't imagine it would make much difference to these numbers. --Ducky

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Trauma and adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Kaya A, Taner Y, Guclu B, Taner E, Kaya Y, Bahcivan HG, Benli IT.

Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Ufuk University, Ankara, Turkey. alperkaya@yahoo.com

This study investigated the relationship between adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and trauma. Fifty-eight adults admitted to hospital with musculoskeletal trauma were evaluated using scales that determine the presence of ADHD in childhood and adulthood. Each patient was also interviewed by an adult psychiatrist and a child and adolescent psychiatrist. The control group consisted of 30 adult patients with complaints other than trauma who did not have a history of repetitive traumas. There were 36 (62.2%) cases of ADHD in the patient group compared with four (13.3%) in the control group; this difference was statistically significant. When the level of trauma was evaluated, ADHD was identified in 23 of the 26 (88.5%) patients with high energy traumas compared with 14 of the 32 (43.8%) patients with low energy traumas; this difference was also statistically significant. This study shows that patients with adult ADHD are more prone to injuries, particularly high energy traumas such as motor vehicle accidents. Patients who have repeated high energy traumas should be evaluated by a psychiatrist for ADHD.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18230262?ordinalpos=94&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsP anel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

It truly would have been helpful to know the percentage of adults on meds. This is why the studies get rejected...they always leave out key points.

So I ask this...when they put the FDA stamp on any med...how many parts of the equation did they miss....hmmmmm

Treated v not treated?

It doesn't seem to have made much difference to me....a late Dx doesn't seem to make much difference.



Yes - I seriously crashed my car a couple of weeks ago.

Hehe...well, duh...

Until my teens when I started moving all together (kinda, hehe) I was always ridiculed for being clumsy and unlucky, and until the possibility of ADD dawned upon me, I thought I was "special" in having had two broken arms, a broken lower leg, two broken feet, a fracture in the neck (I was SO lucky on that one, it didn't go all the way through the bone) one skull fracture (fortunately bled "outwards") and seven concusions...these are just the injuries I had checked in emergency rooms.

I've had a broken nose and may have had broken toes, and a broken bone in one foot + several sprained ancles, fingers and wrists on top of that too, but we didn't get those checked out "properly". Moms in healthbusiness, and said not much could be done anyways, so she just taught me to but on bandages and help monitoring.

But you know what?
I'm pretty sure that's peanuts to some of you guys :D

I thought it was kind of common knowledge that we were more accident prone (especially those with impulsivity problems).
I've been lucky in not breaking bones - possibly broke a toe, but never had it checked, and was born with a broken clavical (pretty sure that one wasn't my fault). I've had my share of injuries though: sprains, strains, dislocated kneecaps, a nail through the foot, pencil through the hand, blacktop in my knee (still there), hand through a french door, cut my hand open on a fire extinguisher, too many concussions to count, and I've lost track of injuries from car accidents (my favorite one was when I was 16 & cracked the steering wheel halfway around, with my head).
My daughter has had stitches in her arm, a staple in her head, almost took off a fingertip while making a necklace, almost broke her nose on a doorway, and recently put a hole in her knee while riding her bike. My son seems to be almost indestructable, he had a big cut on his forehead, but we just used steri-strips for that. Otherwise, he hasn't had an bad injuries, yet.

Here's another surpise.

A high percentage of ER doctors and nurses are ADD!

One reason for that is that ADD individuals often have underactive neurochemical levels in the brain region known as the basal ganglia. Sudden traumatic events can overwhelm this region of the brain, and the individual freezes up (think of being very scared or startled and how your body temporarily paralyzes with fear). Since ADD'ers often have lower basal levels, they can handle more stress or shock without being overwhelmed. If there is an ADD person on the scene of an accident, they will typically be the first person to react. Similarly, if a doctor or nurse suddenly witnesses a person who has been in a horrible car accident, they have a greater capacity to react to the situation faster and in a calmer fashion.

So we see ADD'ers on both sides of the ER. And people say ADD is always a bad thing!